Chapter Twenty-Four: The Face of the Devil
Bai Laosi first had bad luck, and then his relatives also began to suffer. First the parents, then the wife, finally the children, and then the distant relatives, one by one, bad luck continues, and the whole family is almost wiped out.
Under this great pain and pressure, he tried various methods, and searched extensively for clues about the 'Demon Face' in an attempt to find a way to resolve the curse.
However, due to the passage of time, many records have disappeared into the torrent of history, some buried deep into the ground with the dead, and some are fragmented and difficult to piece together. In this process, Bai Laosi kept digging tombs, looking for various information about the 'Face of the Ghost' and the Ten Thousand Demon Concubines.
It was in this process that he met my grandfather Chen Siyuan, and took a fancy to my grandfather's slippery bone disease, forcing my grandfather to go to the ground together.
Until one time, Bai Laosi tracked down a clue, and followed this clue into a strange mausoleum.
This is the tomb of the Giant Ear King.
When I heard this, I couldn't help but wonder a little, and said, "So, Bai Laosi, Chen Ci, and you, you have all entered the tomb of the Giant Ear King?" What's in there? ”
The old boy surnamed Zhao shook his head, as if he was recalling something, and sneered: "I can't count myself as having ever been in, speaking of which, there are only two people who have really entered it, don't interrupt me." ”
He continued.
Bai Laosi followed the clues and entered the tomb of the Giant Ear King, although this person was ruthless and unkind, but the means of robbing the tomb were really a must. At that time, he originally took my grandfather Chen Siyuan with him, but after entering the tomb, the situation inside was too weird, and my grandfather was blocked out.
My grandfather waited outside for two days, but no one came out, so he thought to himself: I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet, could it be that Master Bai Laosi had some accident and died in the tomb? Thinking about it like this, grandpa had the idea of going home, and his heart was relaxed, thinking that he could no longer be coerced by Bai Laosi, but at this moment, Bai Laosi came out.
Bai Laosi was a little wrong, looking at Chen Siyuan's gaze looked particularly weird, his grandfather was still young at the time, and he couldn't notice the origin of this change, although he was uneasy in his heart, he didn't think much about it.
From the tomb of the Giant Ear King, Bai Laosi didn't bring anything out, but when the two returned to the den at the time, Bai Laosi took out the mask of the Ten Thousand Demon Concubines that had been sealed all along, and disappeared for a while.
What I've been doing during this period of time, no one knows. When he came back, he asked his grandfather to bring a mask, which is the origin of the grandfather ghost king, because after the mask is worn, there will be a feeling of not being a human or a ghost.
At that time, grandpa didn't know so much inside information, and the master put on a mask under duress, and it was two years in a flash, while Bai Laosi seemed to get rid of the entanglement of the curse, washed his hands in a golden basin, no longer robbed tombs, and dismissed grandpa, so that he didn't have to go back.
At that time, my grandfather was very happy, and it was during this period that the archaeological team began to recruit An. Grandpa has been hanging outside for most of his life, digging mushrooms upside down, and has never done a face-saving thing, besides, grandpa is more superstitious and always afraid of retribution, so he decided to join the archaeological team, serve the country, and accumulate some yin virtue for himself.
Within a few years of joining the archaeological team, a lot of things happened to our family.
My grandfather's parents gave birth to four girls and three boys, so in a sense, we are a relatively large family, and the seven aunts and eight aunts can all line up in several lines.
But in my image, I didn't interact with these relatives.
Here's why. In the beginning, it was the death of pigs and cattle in each family, and at that time, it was a great loss, as if the house was on fire now. At first, no one thought about it, but after every relative encountered, only my grandfather's vein was safe and sound, and things seemed a little strange.
Grandpa also thought, could it be that he dug the grave by himself and damaged the yin virtue? Even so, it should not be retribution on relatives.
Then, grandpa began to have strange dreams at night, in the dream, a man with the 'face of the ghost king', male and female indistinguishable people walked towards him, the eyes of the mask were infected by the corpse gas, like two black eyes jumping out, very terrifying, and a gloomy, male and female voice sounded in his ears, it was the curse that Bai Lao Si heard back then.
Grandpa understood it all in an instant.
I was yin by Bai Laosi.
At that time, Bai Laosi had disappeared, and his grandfather didn't know where to find him. And the only thing he thought of was the tomb of the Giant Ear King. After Bai Laosi entered this tomb, he didn't know what he saw, so he found out how to transfer the blame in such a turn. He himself was free, but he transferred the curse to our family.
After my grandfather knew this, he immediately moved with my grandmother and Chen Ci, who was still young at the time, which is my current hometown, and the real hometown of our Chen family should be in Jiangxi.
At that time, Grandpa's idea was to hide if he could, and stay away from his relatives, but although the relatives pulled away, something happened on our side.
My grandmother's surname is Liu, her name is Derong, she was a young lady of the landlord's family in her early years, after the Cultural Revolution fought the landlord, she lived a very hard life, her grandfather married her home, and the two were very affectionate. In the old saying of my grandfather, our Chen family started counting from him, and few people who knew words could marry a grandmother who was literate and hyphenated, and it was a blessing for him to be born in eight lifetimes.
Grandma is a virtuous and gentle person, my grandfather has been upset for these things, she has never complained, the two of them live in harmony and beauty, and have never quarreled.
But I don't know when it began, my grandmother's temper became more and more irritable, as if she had been affected by some kind of influence, she became angry at the slightest thing, and her personality became more and more out of line.
Grandpa was persuaded at first, and then the two of them quarreled, and later, my grandmother became a famous shrew in the village.
Until one time, my grandmother fell into the water, drowned, unconscious, and when she was dying, she seemed to suddenly wake up, crying and panting in my grandfather's arms, and sobbed: "I don't know why this happened...... The child's father, I've been too mixed up in the past two years, and I've wronged you......" didn't speak, and he couldn't get up in one breath, so he left.
Second Master Zhao saw that I finally showed a surprised look, so he smiled and said, "I know so well about your family's affairs, you must be very strange." Don't be surprised, these are all relayed to me by your father's statement. ”
Tofu speculated: "Could it be that the mask can also affect people's temperament?" ”
Second Master Zhao glanced at the tofu and said, "Whether it will affect the temperament depends on the person." He then began to say, I was originally a relatively calm person, I was bold, the sky fell when the quilt was covered, my face did not change and my heart did not beat, but after listening to Zhao Erye's words, I couldn't help but fall into silence.
Grandma's words before she died finally made Grandpa realize that something was wrong, could it be that the curse has not disappeared all along, it is still there? So who will be next?
Grandpa turned his gaze to Chen, who was my father.
Chen Ci is very precocious and sensible, grandpa is determined to go to the tomb of the giant ear king, since Bai Laosi was able to find a way to transfer the curse, then if he pursues it, he may be able to find a way to solve the curse.
Grandpa applied for a vacation from the archaeological team, of course, it could not be directly written to dig the grave, the archaeological team did not approve it, and the grandfather left by himself.
This is a long time, when grandpa came home, took off his clothes, his body was full of all kinds of injuries, and the whole person's consciousness was also scattered, and he fell unconscious on the bed.
During this period, Chen Ci took care of his grandfather.
Chen is a precocious and wise child. At that time, my grandfather's economic conditions were good, and he was a state official, and the educational environment that Chen Ci received at that time was relatively good, and my grandfather was always proud of Chen Ci.
After his grandfather woke up, he told Chen Ci that he was not good at learning arts, and he had been blocked outside the tomb of the Giant Ear King once, and although he tried his best this time, he still failed to enter the core area.
And after this tomb robbery, Grandpa's leg fell disabled, and he couldn't go to a sinister place like the tomb of the Giant Ear King.
Chen Ci is young and sensible, and he has a spectrum in his heart, after many years, he went to the tomb of the Giant Ear King alone, and brought out one of the things, and before he died, he transferred the cause and effect and such things to Zhao Erye.
In other cases, Chen Ci would definitely not give things to the surnamed Zhao, but under the circumstances, he had no choice.
Speaking of this, Second Master Zhao stopped, his smile was very treacherous, and said, "This is the deal I want to make with you." What the statement handed me is in my hands, and only by getting it will you be able to grasp the key clues to unlock the curse. ”
When I heard this, I suddenly became angry, how many years ago, he had something in his hand that pinched the lifeblood of our Chen family, and this old boy had been hiding it.